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work_vyzvvevewbgxphbpto455s2cny	A. Baker	Quantitative Parsimony and Explanatory Power	2003	15	.pdf	application/pdf	6407	411	56	for which the preference for quantitatively parsimonious hypotheses is demonstrably preference for quantitative parsimony might be justified on rational grounds. explaining the missing spin, then the following series of alternative neutrino Hn n neutrinos, each with a spin of 1/2n are emitted in each case of Beta quantitative parsimony (roughly, the number of individual things postulated). -spin neutrino postulated by the more parsimonious qualitative parsimony; each postulates exactly one new kind of particle.2 Prior to the postulation of neutrinos in Beta decay, other particles with case of Beta decay, and hypothesis H207, which postulates 207 neutrinos each quantitatively parsimonious hypotheses in science has been as successful as it neutrino case are that total spin is conserved for particles in a closed system, less quantitatively parsimonious alternative hypotheses. additive hypotheses differing only in their quantitative parsimony will have The use of quantitative parsimony in additive cases such as this one is not Less quantitatively parsimonious hypotheses can	./cache/work_vyzvvevewbgxphbpto455s2cny.pdf	./txt/work_vyzvvevewbgxphbpto455s2cny.txt